It’s crackers. The Lib Dems will decimate Labour and take a few Tory seats too. But it won’t be enough to stop the rot and end the madness. Tory majority and Boris cemented in post Brexit Britain in 2020. Like Ireland, the Labour Party will be a busted flush and the end of the Union is nigh.

UK politics is so volatile and difficult to predict. But I’d guess SNP will take Scotland and start the route to Independence. A neighbour in the EU will suit us. Go Sturgeon – she’s proved a capable leader with her head screwed on throughout this mess.

Tories get wiped in Scotland and Farage eats into their English base. Lib Dems are already coming out as full on Remain- which is a vote catcher.

Whatever way you look at it, a coalition is on the cards but that will mean either Farage or Corbyn at least partly in government because it is hard to see the LIb Dems getting into bed with arch Brexiteers.

The irony of all this is that British politics is splintering and- becoming more European.

WhatsApp keep banging on about their encryption but I have recently been in contact with someone using just this service- nothing else. I have had absolutely no other tech contact- no email, no Facebook, not even a voice call. Now, s/he keeps popping up on LinkedIn as a recommended connection. We work in completely separate types of industries and have very different jobs- there is no professional reason why this person would be recommended to me.

This recommendation is a remarkable coincidence with staggering odds but if not, the only way the link could have been made is via the actual phone number. This information was supplied to both LinkedIn and WhatsApp as a means of validation ONLY. Nowhere in the T&C’s of either does it say my number would be used for any other purpose- certainly not for some sort of data trading between them.

Maybe I am missing something here- can anyone help? I use WhatsApp on laptop btw but that should not matter if their encryption is as tight as they claim.

I don’t understand why Labour/LD and SNP didn’t demand another Brexit referendum, to be held on the same day at the general election. That would allow people to seperate their votes and shock horror, actually get the Brexit outcome that the majority wants in 2019, now that more people understand that Brexit will not deliver unicorns.

They voted for it in 1975, so why was there a second referendum? 17.4M did not agree on which Brexit they wanted. Now, they can choose a specific option vs. remain. A poll this week says 41% Leave, 47% Remain.

…the polls before the referendum showed an even higher remain opinion…trouble is…a lot of the people who told the pollsters that they intended to vote remain didn’t bother to vote…that’s not the way democracy works…